The distribution of mineral resources in China is mainly concentrated in minority areas. However, the technology of mineral resources development in minority areas is relatively backward and the utilization rate isn't high. Unreasonable exploitation for mineral resources has caused tremendous damage of mining environment, which restricts the sustainable, healthy and stable development of mining areas. Therefore, how to construct the ecological industrial chain of mineral resources in minority areas has become an important issue of mining sustainable development. In this paper, a SD model with the characteristic of minority areas is established by constructing the dynamical system flowchart that takes mineral resources-environment-economy-society (MEES system) as the main research object based on system dynamics simulation, combination determining weights, and fuzzy sets, etc. In addition, taking Tibetan minority areas for an example, this paper predicts the tendency of the MEES system in the region. Meanwhile, this paper designs four different development modes to provide the operable choice and reference for exploiting the mineral resources in minority areas.

R. Zhou, Y. He and Z. Tan,
Discussion on the development model of nonferrous metal industry cluster-taking ganzhou area of jiangxi province as an example, Enterprise Economy, (2008), 12-15.
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R. Zhou, Y. He and Z. Tan,
Discussion on the development model of nonferrous metal industry cluster-taking ganzhou area of jiangxi province as an example, Enterprise Economy, (2008), 12-15.
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Figure 1.
The relationship between mineral resources development, eco-economic and social systems in minority areas